<img src="/sites/default/files/policing.jpg" alt="Policing" hspace="55" width="160" align="right">Campaigning about the polciing of London's transport, and - in light of the death at the G20 protest in 2009 - against police violence in wider society. This section also carries articles about miscarriages of justice.
A recent Channel 4 Unreported World documentary highlighted the plight of bus drivers in Guatemala City, Guatemala. Bus drivers are being murdered at the rate of one every other day as part of an extortion campaign. One driver who got shot had been paying $40 a week - half his weekly income!
On the Wednesday morning of RMT's AGM, we started off not knowing who the people we were introducing actually were. We watched a film called 'In the Name of the Father', and at the end of the film, there was complete silence, after we had witnessed what the Guildford Four had been through in 1970.
Press release from the United Campaign Against Police Violence
United Campaign Against Police Violence urges Crown Prosecution Service to prosecute officer involved
The United Campaign Against Police Violence (UCAPV) welcomes the step forward in the investigation into the death of newspaper vendor Ian Tomlinson. As the Independent Police Complaints Commission passes its files on the investigation into the police officer seen to strike Ian Tomlinson to the Crown Prosecution Service, we hope that this case will finally come to court and that justice is done.
RMT's London Transport region is affiliated to the United Campaign Against Police Violence, set up in the wake of this year's G20 protests.
You can visit the campaign's website by clicking here.
Stratford no.1 branch has passed this resolution and submitted it for discussion at the April meeting of the Regional Council.
This branch / Regional Council regrets the violent circumstances surrounding the death of newspaper seller Ian Tomlinson at the G20 demonstrations. This unfortunate individual, guilty of nothing more than being in the wrong place at the wrong time, was known to many of our members at Bank/Monument station. We send our condolences to his friends and family and call for legal action against those individuals responsible for his death.